Optics and Photonics Days (OPD) is an annual central event in Optics and Photonics in Finland and the largest yearly Photonics event in the Nordics.
OPD2026 will be held at Paviljonki 26. – 28. May 2026, Jyväskylä, Finland.
OPD offers an unique opportunity to learn from interesting presentations from Academy and Industry program running in parallel, network with companies, students and researchers in the field of photonics and optics, but also to explore products and services at OPD Exhibition that is held during the conference.
Also there is a lot of additional activities such as Networking Dinner, Job Fair, Student meeting, PREIN Annual Event, Photonics Finland annual meeting, Panel discussions, Media event and also Poster- and Pitch sessions.
Submissions
The Optics and Photonics Days academic and industry conference program consists of submitted contributions as well as invited talks, plenary speakers, panel discussions and other related activity. Both sessions include oral presentations and poster presentations for which you may submit your abstract for review by the program committee and additional expert reviewers.
Process for submission
- Descriptions for Academic program topics TBA
- Submissions are sent through Conftool by selecting the topic(s) that best suits your submission.
- The abstract is to be submitted no later than 28th February 2026 in the conference registration and submission portal
Minimum requirements for submission are
- Typographical instructions for the submissions are listed in the abstract template, which is available in Microsoft Word -format and LaTeX-format. The maximum length for the abstract is 1 page. The template for submission is available here: Submission template for OPD.
- Submission type select (preferred oral or poster presentation),
- All authors, email addresses and organizations; list of authors must be identical to the submitted pdf-file,
- Title of Contribution,
- A short summary of the work (max 3 000 characters)